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How could anyone, much less an entire political party and their supporters, be so stupid so as to deliberately spread the coronavirus during the middle of a pandemic? How can we possibly explain this behavior? Extreme behaviors take extreme psychological phenomena to explain. Here’s the perfect storm of cognitive and social psychological explanations.
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Why would Trump attack his generals so cruelly? Why would he say such mean things about them? Why is he such a comical buffoon? Like everything else he does, it is because he’s a narcissist.
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Holy mother this is your Sunday deep dive news read. The Mother of All Explainers! How does the Ol’ Pussy Grabber turn so many otherwise sober rational people to his twisted conspiracy-driven paranoid interpretation of the world? In other words, how does gaslighting work? Why are human beings so vulnerable to it? And, most importantly, how do we resist it? I explain it all right here in six minutes.
The Ol’ Pussy Grabber’s modus operandi has always been to overwhelm those around him with a chaotic fast moving storm of absolute shit. If you never get time to focus on any one thing or crisis or event or insult or outrage, then he can never be held […]
Most reporters, pundits, commentators, and bloggers seem to have missed the real story of the Ol’ Pussy Grabber’s NY Times interview. The real story is the existential threat that his extreme narcissism poses.
Compare the ways Lincoln, Obama, and the Ol’ Pussy Grabber have consoled the families of the nation’s fallen. There is no clearer example of how much the Ol’ Pussy Grabber has degraded our democracy than this.
Recently, Stanford psychologist, Robert Sutton, published “The Asshole Survival Guide,” his recommendations on how to deal with the assholes in your life based on his study of assholes. He was interviewed over at Vox. Such fun!
I’m reviewing Katy Tur’s “Unbelievable” in three parts! It’s that good! Fantastic treatment of the campaign, covering a campaign, being a reporter, and being a human being caught up in the Ol’ Pussy Grabber’s gaslighting narcissistic abuse meat grinder. Katy comes out on the other side stronger and better for it… and you will, too.
Find out everything you never really wanted to know about the enigmatic shadowy figure bumping into the Ol’ Pussy Grabber’s ass, Jared Kushner! Why is he called Le Jejune? Is he really a diabolical mastermind or a moron? Review the evidence, and you decide!
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